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A landmark work in the understanding of capitalism, bourgeois society and the economics of class conflict, Karl Marx''s Capital is translated by Ben Fowkes with an introduction by Ernest Mandel in Penguin Classics. One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most…

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith''s The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of economic theory in general and ''classical'' economics in particular, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Skinner. The…

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds human life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man''s nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.…

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses…

Das Kapital, Karl Marx''s masterwork, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that in our time dominated half the earth and for half a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, one billion Chinese remain…

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world''s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand , a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents…

Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots , Branko Milanovic, one of the world’s…

Why are some leaders able to create trust and negotiate contracts with Chinese, Latin Americans, and Germans all in the same day, while others are barely able to manage the diversity in their own offices? The answer lies in their cultural intelligence, or CQ. Packed with practical tools, research,…

This classic Marxist text is an important document of social conditions in a Victorian industrial city. Engels describes the appalling conditions of the working class with detail, accuracy, compassion and anger. He discusses the daily life of the factory hands, the horrible industrial accidents…

In Economic Facts and Fallacies , Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies…